Garment attachment.



J. W. BBUTON.

GARMENT ATTACHMENT.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 12, 1912.

1,078,826, Patented Nov. 18, 1913.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0.. WASHINGTON. D1 c.

JAcKsoiv w. neuron, or GUTHRIE, MISSOURI.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 18, 1913.

Application med mat 12, 1912'. Serial No. 693309.

To all whom it may cono'ern: i r

Be it known that I, JACKSON W. BRU'roN, citizen of the United States,residing at Guthrie, in the county of Callaway and State of Milssou -ihave invent-ed certain new and useful Improvements in GarmentAttachments of which the following is' a specification. H i l y Thisinvention relatesto attachments for the pockets of garments to holdpencils, fountain pensandlike implements, and prevent-them from fallingfrom the pocket, and has for one of itsobje'cts to provide a simplyconstructed device which may be re ad'ily attached to and removed fromthe garment, and which does not in ure the garment or require anypermanent fastening devices.

Another objectof th'e inventi'on is to pro was a device of thischaracter which may be readily applied and in which provision is i madefor guiding the attaching devices. I

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereafter shown and described, andthen specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention: Figure 1 is-aview of agarment from the outside,with' the outer member of the improveddevicein position thereon; Fig. 2 is a view of portion of a garment fromthe inside, with. the ,inner member of .the improved device in positionthereon; Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of the fastener portionof the improved j d'evi'ce; Fig. 1 is a cross section on the'line 1- 1of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the inner clamp mmbem-Fig. 6is a perspective view of the outer clamp member. tive view of theimproved device illustrating a modification in the construction.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

The improveddevice comprises in general two plates preferably of metal,one to be located externally of the garment and the other to be locatedinternally of the garment oppositethe outer plate and with yieldablefastening devices employed to connect the two plates in position. Theouter plate is represented as a whole at 10 and with the upper edgeturned over as shown at 11, to form a wire-holding socket and withperforations 12 near the ends. The plate 10 is also formed with tongues"21 to fold over the resilient members and assist in holding the same, ashereafter explained. The inner plate is represented as a whole at 13,and is provided with apertures 14 near the ends and with notches 15 inthe lower edge spaced apart the same distance as the apertureslQ- and14. The plate 13 is also provided with a lip 16 to receive the terminalsofv the holding pins, as hereafter explained. The yieldable fasteningdevice is formed preferably from a single piece of wire and comprises alongitudinal body portion 17 bentrinto coils 18 at the terminal of thebody portion and with the remainingportions of the wire extendedthroughthe coils as shown at 19, and thence extended later: Ially as shown at20, the terminals of the 1 portions 20 beingpointedrto' enable them tobe forced through the garment. The plates 10-13 will be of sulficientlength to extend partly across a pocket near the opening as representedin Fig. 1, in which a portion of a garment isfrepre'sented at 24 withthe 1 pocket flap at 22.

The wire portion of the device is first 1 attached to the plate 10 byinserting the lateral portions 20 through the apertures 12 andforcingthebody portions 17 beneath guides to determine the points wherethe pins are to be thrust through the garment.

The plate 13 is then removed and the plate 10 disposed upon the flap 22.The plate 13 is then located on the inner face of the garment with theprotruding portions of the pins extending through the apertures 14. Thepins 20 are then turned up and engaged with the lip 16 which thus locksthe two plates and the fastening device to the garment. It will beunderstood that the portions 19 of the fastening device will besufficiently short so that when the device is attached the springs willbe compressed and thus apply the necessary tension to hold the device inposition and prevent accidental displacement while at the same time thesprings will yieldably support the plates to permit pencils, fountainpens, or other artii may be of any suitable metal and plated,

galvanized, or otherwise treated or protected. The plates may be coloredto correspond to the garment to which they are attached so that theirappearance will not be ing an outer plate having a longitudinallyobservable.

In Fig. 7 is shown a modification of the construction consisting informing the member 17 in two portions as represented at 2323 engaging inopposite ends of the rolled over portion 11, but this would notconstitute a departure from the principle of the invention or sacrificeany of its advantages. 7

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. An attachment for garments comprisextending holding socket andadapted to bear externally of a garment, an inner plate adapted to bearagainst the inner side of a garment, a fastening device including a U-shaped wire body at its intermediate por tion engaging said socket andwith the end portions extending through the plates, and means fordetachably securing the end portions of the inner plate.

2. An attachment for garmentscomprising coacting plates adapted to bearagainst the outer and inner sides or" a garment, fastening devicesextending through said plates, means for yieldably engaging saidfastening devices with one of said plates, and means for detachablyconnecting the fastening devices to the other plate.

3. An attachment for garments comprising coacting plates adapted to bearagainst the outer and inner sides of a garment, guide members extendingfrom one of said plates and through the other plate and guiding thesame, and a spring connected to each of said guide members and bearingagainst the adjacent plate.

4:. An attachment for garments comprising coacting plates adapted tobear against the outer and inner sides of a garment, fastening deviceseach including a coil spring bearing upon one of the plates and with oneterminal of the coil extending through the plates, and means fordetachably connecting said extending terminals to the other of saidplates.

5. An attachment for garments comprising coacting plates adapted to bearagainst the outer and inner sides of a garment, guide members extendingfrom one of the plates and slidable through the other plate, a coilspring connected by its outer helix to each of said guide members andbearing by its inner helix against the adjacent plates.

6. An attachment for garments comprising co -acting plates adapted tobear respectively upon the outer and inner sides of a garment, resilientmembers connected to one of said plates, fastening devices extendingfrom said resilient members and projecting through the other plate, andmeans for detachably engaging said fastening devices with saidlast-mentioned plate.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JACKSGN W. BRUTON; [1 s.]

Witnesses:

J. T. BRYAN, CLAUDE SMITH.

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